Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I have spent the whole day since six o'clock this morning working , and working hard , and this … painted maypole has done nothing all day long and will do nothing tomorrow , except complain about those who do work . |
| 2 | Each side has maintained its own perceptual bubble but these have been made compatible so they fit together as a whole . |
| 3 | This humiliation has eroded what little confidence Jean has . |
| 4 | The response to this ad has illustrated what many of us suspect these days : there is in our industry a great wealth of under-utilised talent and experience which , far from regarding itself as unemployed and job hunting , is highly entrepreneurial and self-reliant . |
| 5 | The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive . |
| 6 | Clark was the inspiration behind Saturday 's victory , leaving Keegan proclaiming : ‘ This lad 's got it all . |
| 7 | I hope this article has given you some insight into what it 's like to be on the receiving end of your cichlid queries . |
| 8 | This place has seen it all before , thought Karelius . |
| 9 | This is shown , for instance , by a survey of Leicester , where each individual ethnic and cultural group tends to possess its own distinctive residential territory ( Leicester CC , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Two weeks before the Department of Education publishes its nationwide league tables of school results , the Daily Post has compiled its own figures , with half of all schools in the region agreeing to participate . |
| 11 | What my hon. Friend says causes me some concern , in addition to my hesitation about the merits of regional banding . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend has made his own point with extreme clarity . |
| 13 | I am glad that my hon. Friend has given us that opportunity . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman has made his own effective point in his own effective way . |
| 16 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 17 | She might wan na go off and do her own thing so erm I said you just think on , I said , this woman has got her own house and everything , she 's got |
| 18 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 19 | This railway has given me much pleasure . |
| 20 | You know this sort of thing and all British wildlife has got its own little characters , every species is different er and you know thousands of animals we 've taken in over the years we 've just learnt different things about different animals that suit different animals . |
| 21 | This hospital does have its own portable X-ray equipment and CT scanner . |
| 22 | As this country has determined its own money supply for several centuries , why do ministers suddenly find that they can no longer do that without having their hands held by a group of German bank clerks ? |
| 23 | Of course , each village does contain its own unique qualities , but to dwell on these only serves to obscure the nature of the changes which have overtaken them , since a concern for the minutiae of each individual village leads us to lose sight of the widespread changes that have affected almost all villages in recent years . |
| 24 | But when it comes to playtime , each cat seems to have its own personal , idiosyncratic way of embellishing its playful interactions with its owners . |
| 25 | Each LAN has to have its own licence and can not be bridged over wide area network connections . |
| 26 | Each teacher tends to have his own particular strategy and will wish to employ the computer program as part of it . |
| 27 | Each period seems to construct its own mythical golden age ‘ twenty years ago ’ . |
| 28 | Each team has to create its own routine which has to include mandatory starburst , jumping jacks , domino sequence and freezing techniques . |
| 29 | That sudden creativity has engendered its own literature . |
| 30 | But my White Poplar has outstripped them all . |